Home of the brave?: Var.

Usage examples of tipi.

Lest Tipi report his interest to her mistress, Toriovico had locked the maid in the bathroom and had dropped a few jealous comments that would make her think that what he searched for was evidence that his wife had taken lovers.

FROM HER EXPLORATIONS during the night before, Melina was not at all pleased when Tipi shook her awake near mid-morning.

Melina said, settling herself into a chair behind her reading desk and motioning for Tipi to pour tea and then leave them in privacy.

Thinking of the handsome guard she had snuck past on her way out, Citrine thought she knew why Tipi had wanted an excuse to be in that part of the tower.

FEAR that Tipi would check on her, the girl slipped out of her room at the usual hour the next night.

Under no conditions should you create a fuss if Tipi cannot locate me for you.

And then he returned to his tipi to remember his vision with his dyes.

Sunflower left the tipi to gain permission from her husband for Merry and Christina to stay with them.

That also was nothing, an act some warriors performed when they wanted decorations for their tipi or their saddle.

Lame Beaver sped from the council tipi, leaped upon the pinto and dashed from the village, heading southward toward the river.

Then he stepped back and watched as Cottonwood Knee led Blue Leaf to a tipi set aside for this highest of ritual purposes.

Pawnee faced eight of Our People, and when it came time to counting coups it was agreed that Lame Beaver had gained one, because he had touched the Pawnee who held the gun, but that evening he lost whatever honor he had gained, for as he was helping Blue Leaf raise their tipi he heard an ominous rattle, close to his wife.

The travois, that primitive but functional invention for hauling goods, was constructed always from two poles used otherwise to support the tipi, and as they dragged for mile after mile across rough terrain, the large ends were gradually abraded until the poles were no longer of sufficient length to use in making the tipi.

They considered this a fair trade, for to Our People the tipi was the center of life.

Lame Beaver was forty-one years old and one of the wisest men of the tribe, he noticed with some dismay that the three key-poles of his tipi were so ground down at the butt ends that they no longer permitted the tipi to assume its lofty and dignified form.